[Ti] Need OSX Backup SW Suggestions

[Dennis Fazio]

On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A wrote:

>  Can anyone
> suggest a good backup SW package to use on a 1G G4 TiBook, running
> 10.2.8?

Get a good program that will give you incremental backups on an  
external firewire drive so you can keep several months of files.  
Things can get corrupted or lost inadvertently and you may not  
discover it for several days or weeks. At that point your simple  
cloner backup program will have overwritten your backup many times.

Retrospect is pretty good. I like Tri-Backup. They'll do bootable  
clones and incrementals on any medium.
Get a firewire disk about twice as big as your PowerBook disk.  Your  
OS and home directory should have two different backup cycle  
strategies. Backup the OS via a bootable clone operation. Always keep  
it one minor upgrade version older than the one on your PowerBook so  
you can easily back off if an upgrade goes haywire. Always do a new  
backup clone before upgrading or applying patches from Apple. Do an  
incremental dump every one or two days on your home directory.

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Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com